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Stephen Hawking Says People Can Escape Black Holes

 
 
 
 
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Humans can avoid being swallowed by a black hole, according to a new theory by prominent British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.

Noted UK astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has suggested that disappearing into black holes may not represent permanent disappearance, media reports said.

Speaking at a conference in Stockholm’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Hawking argued that black holes “are not the eternal prisons they were once thought.”

“If you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up. There’s a way out,” Hawking said.

According to him, those who find themselves in a black hole will not be able to return to their own universe but they can “possibly come out in another universe.”

Scientists believe that black holes are super-dense areas in space where the gravitational suction is so great that nothing can emerge from them.

But Hawking claimed that information that seems to disappear into a black hole may not, in fact, disappear into the hole at all.

“I propose that the information is stored not in the interior of the black hole, as one might expect, but on its boundary: the event horizon,” he said.

So it means that humans may not disappear if they fall into a black hole; they would either stay as a “hologram” on the edge, or fall out somewhere else.

Summing up his thoughts on the matter, Hawking said that “black holes ain’t as black as they are painted.”

His new theory is an attempt to answer a topical question about what happens to things when they go beyond the black hole’s event horizon, a theorized point of no return from which even light cannot escape.

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7 Responses to " Stephen Hawking Says People Can Escape Black Holes "

  1. Sounds like Hawkins is daring us to launch him into one!….ok…….ill chuck in $20 towards this….anyone else wanna launch Hawkins into a black hole?

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  2. I think we should take Hawkins up on his dare…and launch him into space and into a black hole and see if his theory is right!
    Maybe an evil Hawkins would come on through from the other universe!

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  3. I like how he says…we would stay as a “hologram”.
    so now u know your just a hologram…in a hologram…….thats fab hip cool and groovy!
    Now…..how the hell do i get out of this hologram?

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    • I think this guy talks about anal sex

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      • Where not talking about your pet sheep!

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      • Hey, Unknown – that conjures up some wild images!
        Anyway I guess we should always wear a parachute in case we “fall out” of the black hole

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  4. Great we knew that from Sci-fi movies for 40 years, science is catching up.

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